Supplementary School Film Club: “Soleil Ô”, 1970. Dir Med Hondo.

Arrangør: Amber Ablett
Dato: Torsdag 2. mai
Tid: 18:00 - 21:00 (film kl. 18:30)
Billetter: Gratis!
Språk: French, Subtitles: English
Free to join and soup and bread served while we watch
Rom: Bergen Kjøtt Bar (1. etasje)

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In Mauritanian-born French Med Hondo’s Soleil Ô, we follow an unnamed man as he returns to “the motherland” Paris:

“A semiautobiographical film, Soleil Ô was intended as a form of self-therapy, a way for Hondo to expose the vampiric racism that was destroying his own life, to exorcise the effects of that cancer on an individual and collective body. It is a film whose entire project rests on the impossible encounter between the gaze of the (formerly) colonized and that of the (former) colonizer.” Aboubakar Sanogo, 2020.

This is a topic especially close to my heart and history and I’m looking forward to talking with you all about the structural, intellectual and emotional confines imposed on migrants to Europe, and how colonialism has shaped and warped our sense of belonging.

Touki is an independent organisation that works to engage more young minorities, especially Black youths in the arts and politics. The organisation is a platform that highlights Black voices in the arts and works for an anti-capitalist, intersectional feminist, anti-racism, queer-positive, and decolonized world. We run the organisation based on volunteerism, community building and a willingness to make a difference in society.

The goal of Touki is to establish a non-restrictive space for Black and POC artists, freed from the white gaze. A space where we can experience art without having to justify the Black or POC perspective, and where the artists’ work can exist and be appreciated on its own terms without being filtered through a white lens. Touki wants representation of perspectives from people of colour, especially the Black perspective, in the Norwegian art world, and an art scene that is radical, decolonized, and inclusive.